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  L'editoriale di Mario Monti IL GRANDE EQUIVOCO SULLA UE I l trionfo del partito nazionalista AfD nella Sassonia-Anhalt e il panico di tutti i partiti italiani di fronte all’avanzata nei sondaggi di Futuro Nazionale di Roberto Vannacci stanno scuotendo l’Europa. Quanti tengono alla libertà, allo Stato di diritto, al progresso economico e sociale, a un’Europa più unita ed efficace — e non vogliono il ritorno alle dittature, alle persecuzioni razziali, alla guerra tra europei — dovranno mobilitarsi contro l’ormai evidente alleanza che mira a spaccare l’Unione europea. Guidata in modo sinergico, e ormai trasparente, dagli Stati Uniti di Trump e dalla Russia di Putin, si avvale di una rete di quinte colonne costituite da forze politiche, a volte già al governo, altre volte in avvicinamento, di stampo sovranista e nazionalista. Battersi contro questa alleanza con attacchi verbali ai sovranisti e ai nazionalisti, non basta più. Il campo europeista, per così dire, deve fare un’urgente e ...
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  Protests at small boats reflect a broken system  After the claim that just 1% of asylum cases are genuine, an immigration overhaul is vital to placate growing public anger  STUART BROCK Juliet Samuel @citysamuel  Tony Smith remembers well dealing with fraud as a British immigration officer in 1970s Bangladesh, some decades before he became head of the UK Border Agency. The most popular ruse was the “bogus children” trick. A Bangladeshi man with some connection to the UK would get a work visa, and then apply to bring over his family. Upon application, the family size would suddenly swell. The extra members were always children, usually a neighbour or cousin’s teenage boys, behind which lay some deal far from the eye of the British state. With no paternity tests or reliable birth records, immigration officers were left trying to piece together vast family trees by interviewing extended family and cross-checking what they said. They had one handy tactic, though. Just ...
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CIA director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in US negotiations with Russia and Ukraine ,  US officials have told their European counterparts, in a bid to jump-start moribund diplomatic efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year-long war.  The move comes as the White House is considering paring back the involvement of US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have been leading the talks with Moscow and Kyiv, according to five people familiar with the plans.  Officials close to Ratcliffe have told European peers that he will play a larger role in shuttle diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine — which is currently the purview of Witkoff and Kushner — while maintaining contact with intelligence officers in both countries.  Liz Lyons, CIA director of public affairs, said: “This reporting is false.” People close to the situation said Trump has not made a final decision. The telegraphed switch away from Witkoff ...
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  Warsh might yet be a good Fed chairman  He must stay clear on the object ives of policy and sens ible on how the cent ral bank should con duct itself  Financial Times Europe 9 Sep 2026 Mar tin Wolf Eco nom ics mar tin.wolf@ft.com  Is it pos sible that Kevin Warsh will prove to be the cent ral banker the US and the world needs? After his speech at the Jack son Hole Sym posium, I am less pess im istic about the pro spect than before. Diffi  cult choices — diffi  cult intel lec tu ally and polit ic ally — lie ahead. But his speech “In our time” was both clear and sens ible — clear on the object ives of policy and sens ible on how the Fed should con duct itself. This is cheer ing. It could also prove of great future import ance. As I have pre vi ously noted, Warsh has been a con fus ing fig ure. In the past he has presen ted him self as an infla tion hawk, not ably with his wildly pre ma ture con cern over the dangers, not ably to infla tion, of the mon et ar...
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  Destroy and kill Iran for all time! US Treasury ratchets up pressure on Iran with sweeping new aviation sanctions A general view of the Treasury Building on day two of a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2026. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday issued 36 Iran-related sanctions targeting the country's aviation sector and other companies as part of a broad ​push to escalate economic pressure on Tehran as the war in the Middle East has moved into a seventh month. The U.S. Treasury ‌Department said the action was aimed at grounding Iran's Mahan Air, which was already sanctioned by the U.S. and the European Union, and expanding sanctions to all other Iranian airlines. The sanctions also took aim at covert front companies, cargo handlers, foreign intermediaries and deceptive trans-shipment routes that Washington says Iran relies on to obtain U.S.-origin aircraft an...
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L'Iran ha sbagliato i calcoli: il tempo non è più a suo favore Per mesi Teheran ha pensato di avere dalla propria parte un alleato formidabile: il tempo. La strategia iraniana si basava su un calcolo. Se l’Iran fosse riuscito a paralizzare Hormuz , attraverso il quale prima della guerra transitava circa un quinto del petrolio mondiale, il prezzo dell’energia sarebbe esploso . L’inflazione avrebbe colpito le economie occidentali, la benzina sarebbe diventata sempre più cara negli Stati Uniti, Donald Trump avrebbe subito un danno politico crescente. Washington sarebbe stata costretta a un compromesso .   Sei mesi dopo, quella scommessa non ha funzionato. Anzi, gli ultimi dati indicano che il tempo potrebbe essere diventato il nemico dell’Iran . Il regime di Teheran non ha perso la capacità di fare danni. Può ancora colpire petroliere, basi americane e infrastrutture nel Golfo. Può scegliere un’escalation più violenta. La sua milizia alleata nello Yemen, gli Houthi, ha ripreso a pre...
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  Europe Hits the Snooze Button Sunday’s victory of the anti- immigrant, anti America, pro Russia and pro-China Alternative for G e r m a n y party, or AfD, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt shook Europe to its core. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union party was the hardest hit. The CDU had ruled the state since 2002 and saw its vote share collapse from 37.1% in 2021 to 17.2%. Saxony-Anhalt is the eighth-largest of Germany’s 16 states by land area; measured by economic output per person, it is among the poorest. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern this month are likely to bring more good news for the AfD and further setbacks for the Christian Democrats. Mr. Merz may lose his job as the bad news rolls in, but concerns about an extremist takeover of Germany are premature. Winning pluralities in a handful of former East German states is a significant achievement, but the AfD is still very far from taking over Germany as a whole. France, where Mar...
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